Museum; founder of "Boletin do governo ecclesiastico da Diocese de Macau"; as bishop, has built numerous churches and schools, introduced into his diocese new religious orders, and founded a college for girls at Malacca; as member of the Government Council, defeated scheme for the granting of a gambling monopoly designed to make Macao the Monte Carlo of the Far East; visited Europe to arrange with the Pope and the French and Portuguese governments matters for some time unsettled connected with the change of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Hainan and Shin Hing, bringing the affair to a definite conclusion, 1907; upheld with great constancy the cause of the Church in the struggle against the persecutions of the Portuguese Republic, 1910. Hon. Brother of the Santa Casada Misericordia, Macao. Author of: pastoral letters, decrees, addresses, etc.; contributor to: "Boletin do governo ecclesiastico da Diocese de Macau; "Annales de la Congrégation de la Mission".
ARTICLE: Macao, Diocese of.
